HB4755 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4755

Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Monica Bristow

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

110 ILCS 935/3.07	from Ch. 144, par. 1453.07
110 ILCS 935/3.09

Amends the Underserved Physician Workforce Act. Adds a psychiatrist to the definitions of "eligible medical student" and "eligible health care provider". Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Underserved Physician Workforce Act is amended by changing Sections 3.07 and 3.09 as follows:

(110 ILCS 935/3.07) (from Ch. 144, par. 1453.07)

Sec. 3.07. "Eligible medical student" means a person who meets all of the following qualifications:

(a) he or she is an Illinois resident at the time of application for a scholarship under the program established by this Act;

(b) he or she is studying medicine in a medical school located in Illinois;

(c) he or she exhibits financial need as determined by the Department; and

(d) he or she agrees to practice full-time in a Designated Shortage Area as a primary care physician, general surgeon, emergency medicine physician, or obstetrician, or psychiatrist one year for each year he or she is a scholarship recipient.

(Source: P.A. 101-118, eff. 7-22-19.)

(110 ILCS 935/3.09)

Sec. 3.09. Eligible health care provider. "Eligible health care provider" means a primary care physician, general surgeon, emergency medicine physician, or obstetrician, or psychiatrist.

(Source: P.A. 101-118, eff. 7-22-19.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.